Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G17, UCC

This ten week course will familiarise students with the contents, sources and relevant procedures in Employment Law and will enable them to access and evaluate new legislation or case law. In turn, participants can advise management on the relevant issues, and assist in development of new policies and procedures for their organisations in an evolving legal environment.

This is a short course, and so there are no pre-requisites. Students will be expected to attend all the lectures, to engage with relevant participative learning exercises, to read relevant case law and legislation, and to participate in class discussions. At the end of the course, students will be expected to be able to outline the nine grounds of discrimination and harassment, explain what is meant by fairness of procedures, describe the various elements of a contract, provide an account of the various protective employment statutes, and outline how a contract of employment may be terminated.
1. The law in context
2. Court structure
3. The contract of employment
4. Termination of the contract of employment
5. Unlawful Dismissals Legislation 1977 – 1999
6. Redundancy
7. Employment Equality Act, 1988. Equal Status Act, 2000
8. Other protective legislation
9. The employer’s duty to care for their employees
10. Detailed study of a statute and a case report

Ms Angela Liddy, BA, LLM, BL. Angela is a qualified Barrister whose areas of expertise are employment law, health and safety law and alternative methods of dispute resolution.

Regina Sexton, Course co-ordinator : r.sexton@ucc.ie

Marian O'Keeffe, Course administrator : marian.okeeffe@ucc.ie

Tel: 021 4904700